Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 11/21/17

The N.C. Department of Transportation has lost an appeal to a court order that it begin paying landowners whose property was subject to the Map Act, a state law that allowed the department to reserve corridors for future highways without buying the property. The state Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional in the summer of 2016, concluding that it amounted to the government taking property without compensation. But NCDOT has appealed subsequent local court rulings ...

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